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The 4.6 kg (10 pound) bird made her television debut in June
to highlight efforts by scientists looking to stem the decline
of martial eagles, Africa's largest eagle species.
"We detected that the bird was no longer moving about in a
normal fashion," said Rowen van Eeden, a researcher at the
University of Cape Town.
Van Eeden and a colleague tracked the signal to a remote corner
of Mozambique, more than 160 km (100 miles) away from where the
bird had been tagged, and found it with its neck trapped in a
snare probably used to catch small buck.
It was the third adult eagle out of eight fitted with GPS tags
to die outside of Kruger since the start of the Martial Eagle
research program three years ago.
Two died at the hands of hunters in Mozambique and a third was
electrocuted flying into power lines in Swaziland.
(Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by Ed Stoddard)
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